Karen Fog Olwig

Karen Fog Olwig

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2010
  2. Published

    Commentary on "Community as 'Good to Think With'"

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2010, In: Anthropologica. 52, 2, p. 363-366 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Cosmopolitan traditions: Caribbean perspectives

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2010, In: Social Anthropology. 18, 4, p. 417-424 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Cultural Marronage and the Development of St. Johnian Identity

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2010, Negotiating Enslavement: Perspectives on Slavery in the Danish West Indies. Highfield, A. R. & Tyson, G. F. (eds.). St. Croix: Antilles Press, p. 31-45 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  5. Published

    Migrationsnarrativer: Fortællinger om den gode slægtning blandt vestindiske kvinder

    Olwig, Karen Fog, Dec 2010, In: Kulturstudier. 2, December, p. 119-139 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. 2011
  7. Published

    "Strangers" in the Nation

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Pærregaard, K., 2011, The Question of Integration: Immigration, Exclusion and the Danish Welfare State. Olwig, K. F. & Pærregaard, K. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 1-28 28 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  8. Published

    'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), Larsen, B. R. (ed.) & Rytter, M. (ed.), 2011, Routledge. 174 p. (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; No. 2, Vol. 37).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations.

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 37, 2, p. 179-196 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    A Wedding in the Family: Home Making in a Global Kin Network

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, Migration and Culture. Cohen, R. & Jónsson, G. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 602-615 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Changes of Place: Interrogating the Continuities and Disjunctures of Movement

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Amit, V., 2011, In: Anthropologica. 53, p. 3-7 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Children's Sociality: The Civilizing Project in the Danish Kindergarten

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 55, 2, p. 121-141 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Introduction: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Rytter, M., 2011, Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 9-26 18 p. (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, Vol. VII).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Les déplacements: questions de continuités et de ruptures dans le mouvement

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Amit, V., 2011, In: Anthropologica. 53, p. 9-14 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Rytter, M. (ed.), 2011, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 259 p. (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, Vol. VII).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    The Moral Landscape of Caribbean Migration

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World. Rytter, M. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 75-94 20 p. (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, Vol. VII).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    The Question of Integration: Immigration, Exclusion and the Danish Welfare State

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Pærregaard, K. (ed.), 2011, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 294 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  18. Published

    The Social Construction of Improvement: Continuity and Change in Caribbean Migrants' Life Stories

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, In: Anthropologica. 53, 1, p. 41-51 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. 2012
  20. Published

    Børns socialitet: Fortolkning og forhandling af civiliseringsprojektet i børnehaven

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, Civiliserende institutioner: Om idealer og distinktioner i opdragelse. Gilliam, L. & Gulløv, E. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 97-118 22 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Climate and Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences

    Hastrup, Kirsten & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 263 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  22. Published
  23. Published

    Introduction: Climate Change and Human Mobility

    Hastrup, Kirsten & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences. Hastrup, K. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 1-22

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Migration, Family and the Welfare State: Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), Larsen, B. R. (ed.) & Rytter, M. (ed.), 2012, Milton Park: Routledge. 174 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    The 'successful' return: Caribbean narratives of migration, family, and gender

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 18, 4, p. 828-845 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    The Care Chain, Children's Mobility and the Caribbean Migration Tradition

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 38, 6, p. 933-952 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. 2013
  28. Published

    Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver

    Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2013, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur. 214 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Ideal og regulering

    Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver. Samfundslitteratur, p. 147-149 3 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Introduktion. Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske perspektiver på nære relationer

    Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver. Mogensen, H. O. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 9-32 24 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Kontinuitet og Forandring

    Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver. Mogensen, H. O. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 33-36 4 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Migration and Care: Intimately Related Aspects of Caribbean Family and Kinship

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life. Baldassar, L. & Merla, L. (eds.). Routledge, p. 133-148 16 p. (Routledge Research in Transnationalism, Vol. 29).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Notions and practices of difference: an epilogue on the ethnography of diversity

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 20, 4, p. 471-79 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Nærvær og Distance

    Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver. Mogensen, H. O. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 93-95 3 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Review of Sandra Wallman, The Capability of Places: Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change. London: Pluto Press, 2011

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, In: Critique of Anthropology. 33, 2, p. 239-240 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  36. 2015
  37. Published

    Americas, Sociocultural Overviews: Caribbean

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Wright, J. D. (ed.). 2 ed. Elsevier, Vol. 1. p. 638-643 6 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEncyclopedia chapterResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Barns sosialitet: Tolkning og forhandling av siviliseringsprojektet i barnehagen

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, Siviliserende institusjoner: om idealer og distinksjoner i oppdragelse. Gilliam, L. & Gulløv, E. (eds.). Fagbokforlaget, p. 107-130 24 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    Caribiske migranter i Danmark: Eventyrlige rejsefortællinger og danske hverdagsliv

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, Mobilitet og tilknytning: Migrantliv i et globaliseret Danmark. Valentin, K. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 181-200 20 p. (Antropologiske Studier; No. 3).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  40. Published

    Den nye landbefolkning: Asylcentres betydning og konsekvens for lokale fællesskaber i danske landdistrikter

    Larsen, B. R., Whyte, Zachary & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, København: Institut for Antropologi, Københavns Universitet. 84 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportReportResearch

  41. Published

    Introduktion: Nye horisonter i dansk migrationsforskning

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Valentin, K., 2015, Mobilitet og tilknytning: Migrantliv i et globaliseret Danmark. Valentin, K. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 7-23 17 p. (Antropologiske Studier; No. 3).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Migrating for a Profession: Becoming a Caribbean nurse in post-WWII Britain

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 22, 3, p. 258-272 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    Mobilitet og tilknytning: Migrantliv i et globaliseret Danmark

    Valentin, K. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2015, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 227 p. (Antropologiske Studier; No. 3).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Valentin, K., 2015, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 22, 3, p. 247-257 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    The duplicity of diversity: Caribbean immigrants in Denmark

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38, 7, p. 1104-1119 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    Local and Transnational Care Relations: Relatedness and Family Practice among Au Pairs in Denmark

    Dalgas, K. M. & Olwig, Karen Fog, Oct 2015, In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. 15, 4, p. 469-484 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Return Migration among Elderly, Chronically Ill Bosnian Refugees: Does Health Matter?

    Handlos, L. N., Olwig, Karen Fog, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Kristiansen, Maria & Nørredam, Marie Louise, 12 Oct 2015, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 12, 10, p. 12643-12661 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. 2016
  49. Published

    Foreword

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2016, Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica, by Jean Besson. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, p. xvii-xx

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    Moving Memories and Memories of Moves: Some Afterthoughts

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2016, Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past. Palmberger, M. & Tosic, J. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 271-285 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  51. Published

    The Not-yet-civilised: Negotiating the Kindergarten’s Civilising Project

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2016, Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families. Gilliam, L. & Gulløv, E. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 78-98

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  52. Published

    Return Migrants’ Experience of Access to Care in Corrupt Healthcare Systems: The Bosnian Example

    Handlos, L. N., Olwig, Karen Fog, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian & Nørredam, Marie Louise, 19 Sep 2016, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13, 9, p. 1-12 12 p., 924.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  53. 2017
  54. Published

    "Migrant Women's Voices. Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945" by Linda McDowell. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2017, In: International Migration Review. 51, 1, p. e13-e14 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewCommunication

  55. Published

    Mobility, Education and Life Trajectories: New and old migratory pathways

    Valentin, K. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2017, Abingdon: Routledge. 130 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  56. 2018
  57. Published

    At lede i arkiver: Feltarbejde i dokumenter

    Mellemgaard, Signe & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2018, Antropologiske projekter: En grundbog. Rubow, C., Bundgaard, H. & Mogensen, H. (eds.). København: Samfundslitteratur, p. 213-226

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterEducationpeer-review

  58. Published

    At snakke om det: Måder at interviewe på

    Rytter, M. & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2018, Antropologiske projekter: En grundbog. Rubow, C., Bundgaard, H. & Overgaard, H. (eds.). København: Samfundslitteratur, p. 181-194 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterEducationpeer-review

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